Retrace
verb
To go back over the same path or route that was taken before.
We got lost in the woods, so we decided to retrace our steps back to the campsite.
Often appears as...
- retrace one's steps
- retrace the path
verb
To go back over something, usually in order to study it or learn from it again.
To understand the case better, the detective retraced the events of the night.
Often appears as...
- retrace the events
- retrace the history
verb
To go back over the same path or route that was taken before.
We got lost in the woods, so we decided to retrace our steps back to the campsite.
Often appears as...
- retrace one's steps
- retrace the path
verb
To go back over something, usually in order to study it or learn from it again.
To understand the case better, the detective retraced the events of the night.
Often appears as...
- retrace the events
- retrace the history
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Often used to describe physically walking or traveling back the way one came.
After realizing I forgot my purse, I had to retrace my steps to the café.
Pro Tip 2/3Lost and Found
Use 'retrace' when looking for something lost along a previous route.
I retraced my route to find the keys I’d dropped.
Pro Tip 3/3Methodical Approach
Emphasizes a careful and systematic return over a route to ensure accuracy.
The guide made us retrace our path meticulously to find the missing camera.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Often used to describe physically walking or traveling back the way one came.
After realizing I forgot my purse, I had to retrace my steps to the café.
Pro Tip 2/3Lost and Found
Use 'retrace' when looking for something lost along a previous route.
I retraced my route to find the keys I’d dropped.
Pro Tip 3/3Methodical Approach
Emphasizes a careful and systematic return over a route to ensure accuracy.
The guide made us retrace our path meticulously to find the missing camera.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Movement
Often used to describe physically walking or traveling back the way one came.
After realizing I forgot my purse, I had to retrace my steps to the café.
Pro Tip 2/3Lost and Found
Use 'retrace' when looking for something lost along a previous route.
I retraced my route to find the keys I’d dropped.
Pro Tip 3/3Methodical Approach
Emphasizes a careful and systematic return over a route to ensure accuracy.
The guide made us retrace our path meticulously to find the missing camera.
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Sarah and Eric...
often been used as a form of recreation but hadn't really been used as a form of transportation all that much and we thought that we could really go somewhere with these so expedition we decided to retrace the historical Northwest Passage it's an important route because back in the turn-of-the-century is a shipping route
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How fiction can change...
something strange happens. Stepping onto the shore, we're changed. We don't retrace the footsteps of the authors or characters we followed here. No; instead, we walk a mile in their shoes. Researchers in psychology, neuroscience, child development and biology
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Investigating an Anthrax...
and hold it up in front of the cameras, I can get us anything we want. We went through every inch of that mail room. Erin knows she handed the letter off. Then you jumped a step when you retraced it. The truth is never about what should have happened.
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Fleeing ISIS Conflict -...
where you're going what I'm really hoping that will come out after the many years of this out of eating walk project is that we as a collective humanity can look at the retracing of our humanity's footsteps we're repeating the madness
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Paola Antonelli: Design...
we find that we need to tag as much as we can what we do in order to then retrace our path. Also, we do it in order to share with other people. Again, this communal sense of experience that seems to be so important today.
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How to unboil an egg -...
anything that happens, like egg proteins seizing up, can theoretically unhappen if you retrace your steps. But adding more heat will tangle the proteins further, and cooling them down will only freeze them, so here's the
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The Life of a Photograph...
me to take this picture my mother taught me to put into it all of those elements the last chapter in the book retraces the title of the book the life of the photograph the accompanying picture is
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Best Animal Escapes PIPE...
but his navigational equipment doesn't stop there wherever he goes glands on his barely laid on a scent that acts like a paper trail allowing him to retrace his steps back home
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The original ring of...
On its finger, a golden ring, which Gyges pocketed before retracing his steps. Later, he sat among the other shepherds, fiddling with the mysterious ring when, suddenly,
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Hamster Escapes Cage To...
retrace his steps back home for a burrowing creature holes are irresistible
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Sarah and Eric...
often been used as a form of recreation but hadn't really been used as a form of transportation all that much and we thought that we could really go somewhere with these so expedition we decided to retrace the historical Northwest Passage it's an important route because back in the turn-of-the-century is a shipping route
Video examples
How fiction can change...
something strange happens. Stepping onto the shore, we're changed. We don't retrace the footsteps of the authors or characters we followed here. No; instead, we walk a mile in their shoes. Researchers in psychology, neuroscience, child development and biology
Video examples
Investigating an Anthrax...
and hold it up in front of the cameras, I can get us anything we want. We went through every inch of that mail room. Erin knows she handed the letter off. Then you jumped a step when you retraced it. The truth is never about what should have happened.
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Fleeing ISIS Conflict -...
where you're going what I'm really hoping that will come out after the many years of this out of eating walk project is that we as a collective humanity can look at the retracing of our humanity's footsteps we're repeating the madness
Video examples
Paola Antonelli: Design...
we find that we need to tag as much as we can what we do in order to then retrace our path. Also, we do it in order to share with other people. Again, this communal sense of experience that seems to be so important today.
Video examples
How to unboil an egg -...
anything that happens, like egg proteins seizing up, can theoretically unhappen if you retrace your steps. But adding more heat will tangle the proteins further, and cooling them down will only freeze them, so here's the
Video examples
The Life of a Photograph...
me to take this picture my mother taught me to put into it all of those elements the last chapter in the book retraces the title of the book the life of the photograph the accompanying picture is
Video examples
Best Animal Escapes PIPE...
but his navigational equipment doesn't stop there wherever he goes glands on his barely laid on a scent that acts like a paper trail allowing him to retrace his steps back home
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The original ring of...
On its finger, a golden ring, which Gyges pocketed before retracing his steps. Later, he sat among the other shepherds, fiddling with the mysterious ring when, suddenly,
Video examples
Hamster Escapes Cage To...
retrace his steps back home for a burrowing creature holes are irresistible
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Douglas Brunt
American Novelist
I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.
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Bruce Feiler
American Writer
Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
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Howard Staunton
English Celebrity
If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
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Andre Breton
French Poet
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
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Lindi Ortega
Canadian Musician
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
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Nathalie Sarraute
Russian Lawyer
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Douglas Brunt
American Novelist
I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, 2001, but they're too young for that. Maybe when they're twenty. Maybe by then, even though it's been only a short subway ride away for years now, I'll have the nerve to see the 9-11 memorial for the first time.
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Bruce Feiler
American Writer
Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
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Howard Staunton
English Celebrity
If, during the course of the game, it be discovered that any error or illegality has been committed in the moves of the pieces, the moves must be retraced, and the necessary correction made, without penalty.
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Andre Breton
French Poet
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Quote examples
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Quote examples
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Quote examples
Virgil
Roman Poet
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Quote examples
Lindi Ortega
Canadian Musician
I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
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Nathalie Sarraute
Russian Lawyer
Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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